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Const. Colin Naismith with the traffic enforcement division of the Vancouver Police Department, carries his 10-year-old K9 parter Cooper, a golden lab, and Axel, a black Belgian Malinois, as he repels down the Manitoba Emergency Services College training structure at the Brandon Municipal Airport on Thursday morning. Const. Naismith is part of the Canada Task Force 1 (CAN-TF1) Urban Search and Rescue K9 team from British Columbia, and is one of 15 individuals taking part in training in Brandon this week, along with their canine partners. (Matt Goerzen/The Brandon Sun)